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The Canadian company @Enbridge has begun construction of the Weymouth Compressor Station has begun @FRRACS_MA and residents came out to protest #NoWeymouthCompressor #mapoli
Coastal inversion causes the air pollution to be trapped low to the surface in the Fore River Basin #mapoli
Enbridge go home! #mapoli #NoWeymouthCompressor
One of @Enbridge's private security guards has a Maine license plate "BELLUM" meaning "ultimate war" in latin. #mapoli #NoWeymouthCompressor
King's Cove of Weymouth littered with toxic burner bricks and black clinkers-- remants of burning coal-- popping out of the snow #mapoli #NoWeymouthCompressor
Dr. @nathanpboston and Alice Arena taking soil samples in an eroding bank of King's Cove #mapoli #NoWeymouthCompressor
An eroding bank in King's Cove at the park adjacent to the site of the Compressor Station #mapoli #NoWeymouthCompressor
Photos of us walking along the public access road where the construction is taking place #NoWeymouthCompressor #mapoli
My friend @WendyWendy48 a part of the team protesting the Compressor Station #NoWeymouthCompressor #mapoli
Please join us @FRRACS_MA and sign the pledge tinyurl.com/WeymouthAction… #NoWeymouthCompressor #mapoli #GivingTuesday
We came out in force in the cold snow on day 1 of construction. We will be back! #NoWeymouthCompressor #mapoli
Thanks for the photos @ljennings32! #NoWeymouthCompressor #mapoli
Thank you to the whole @FRRACS_MA Team #NoWeymouthCompressor #mapoli
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Robert Kearns
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Good afternoon #mapoli. Heading Worcester to Pittsfield via Springfield on the Lake Shore Limited with my friend Anne from @palmertrain. We're heading to bring awareness for future East-West Passenger Rail Across the Commonwealth
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Robert Kearns
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At Union Station to Ride the #ValleyFlyer from Springfield to Greenfield and back to Northampton on this first weekend of service #mapoli
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Nancy Vann
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A little extra background on this particular pipeline project:

It started in 2013 based on the lie that the Northeast needed more gas. It was called the Algonquin Incremental Markets project - a name that should have tipped off regulators that it was being illegally ‘segmented’
The segmentation was done to prevent a full environmental review of the planned project. That review would have required the inclusion of the #Weymouth compressor station. But the company vehemently denied that the gas was destined for Canadian LNG ports & export to Europe.
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Communities at both ends of the pipeline raised strong objections. At the Massachusetts end it was due to the route next to an active quarry.

At the New York end it runs about 100 feet from parts of the Indian Point nuclear plant. Just 25 miles north of New York City.

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Joe LaRusso 🔌 🕳🐇
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1. @MassGovernor’s statement below embodies the paradox that is his administration’s climate policy. On the one hand it upholds offshore wind as “one of the most significant changes in environmental policy in a very long time,” which is 💯 true. #mapoli

2. On the other hand, it places its imprimatur on a fossil fuel project with the capacity to move 132.7M cubic feet of natural gas (132,700 dekatherms) through the region *each and every day *. That volume of gas will yield 2,835,000 tons of CO2 annually.
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peter delano
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@massdep @EEASecretary @MassEEA
1/Let your moral compass be your guide >>>>deny Weymouth Compressor Station #noweymouthcompressor
2/I'm guessing you're under a lot of political pressure - not surprising given the tens of thousands of campaign donations to Governor Baker>>>>Please do the right thing anyway and deny the permits
3/I know the state regulations technically allow you to ignore baseline air pollution levels >>>>Please do the right thing anyway and deny the permits
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Derek Seidman
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THREAD: Trying to think of the top 5 conflicts/issues/scandals around the #Weymouth compressor station.

Not sure if 5 slots is enough. This thing is a real mess.

But here’s a go at it.

@FRRACS_MA @MothersOutFront @nathanpboston
5/ MA Gov. Charlie Baker has accepted hundreds of thousands of dollars from entities tied to and/or pushing Weymouth - lobbyists, corporations, banks, etc.

Link: littlesis.org/maps/3949-web-…
4/Baker is extremely cozy with Weymouth’s lobbyists & lawyers.

Want to know how cozy? ⬇️⬇️

desmogblog.com/2017/02/28/mas…

littlesis.org/maps/3949-web-…
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Derek Seidman
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1/ The Massachusetts DEP is holding a hearing tomorrow on a permit for the Weymouth compressor station - which has faced intense opposition from groups like @MothersOutFront & @FRRACS_MA.

Their efforts to stop the compressor station are gaining momentum.
bostonglobe.com/metro/2019/05/…
2/ MA Gov Charlie Baker can stop the compressor station. And residents have made clear the health concerns around it - not to mention that the larger fracked gas export infrastructure it's part of will lock in new CO2 emissions for decades to come.
wbur.org/earthwhile/201…
3/ Journalist @itai_vardi has shown that there is undisclosed evidence of carcinogens around the project, too.
desmogblog.com/2019/05/08/und…
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Itai Vardi
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1. THREAD on my latest #Weymouth compressor station revelation. Last year Massachusetts conducted a Health Impacts Assessment (HIA), ordered by @MassGovernor Baker, to evaluate Enbridge's 7,700 HP station's effects on the densely-populated area. desmogblog.com/2019/04/18/air…
2. As part of the HIA, @MassDEP conducted air sampling to establish baseline conditions in the Fore River Basin, and sent the sampling canisters to a private lab for analysis. The lab found most chemicals it tested for to be below state limits on air pollution.
3. The HIA thus concluded the station will not affect human health through direct exposure to the station's emissions - and the DEP issued Enbridge an air permit shortly after. But documents I obtained this week through an open records request paints a very troubling picture.
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